NEW DELHI: The environmental clearance for the Rs.15,000-crore Vedanta University project has been put on hold by the Central government to re-examine allegations of illegal activities by the promoters.

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Rahul Wadke

The Maharashtra Government's ambitious project of setting up one lakh farm ponds across the State this year has received good response.

More than 50,000 ponds will be constructed before the onset of this monsoon.

Of the budgeted outlay of Rs 300 crore, about Rs 160 crore has already been disbursed to farmers, a senior official with the State Government said.

Bhakti V Hegde Mangalore, April 26, DHNS

Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat is thinking on innovative lines. With its water recharge project initiated at Munnur and Kolnad Gram Panchayats becoming a success, it is all set to extend the project to 13 other villages which have acute shortage of drinking water by June 2010.

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has adopted a two-pronged strategy to increase water table in the state.

While one aspect of the plan involves a slew of quick-fire measures across the rural-urban divide aimed at harvesting and recharging this precious but drying up resource; the other revolves around a massive campaign to inform people, how to conserve every drop of water.

April 21: MPs cutting across party lines expressed concern on the depleting ground water levels in the country and asked the government to take immediate steps to boost reservoirs.

The Jalabhishek Abhiyan bas been specially focused this year on recharging of dried up rivers, nullahs and reservoirs. On this these, jal yatras will be taken out throughout the state for recharging of dried up water sources. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will launch the statewide campaign at Ratlam by starting the recharging work of Jaman river.

"The Real Green Revolution is about rainwater harvesting. Let us catch water where it falls. Let it transform human lives. Let it change social existence. If this happens, the world will be transformed. The world will merely be Green by rainwater harvesting-democracies."

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